Slashdot Mirror

Please use a mirror, yeah, har har. Thanks, buddy. As of now, of course, none of the mirrors have updated, possibly because people post links right to the master.

Australia (Canberra, .au only) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Melbourne) http://www.openbsd.aba.net.au/ftp/songs/song32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Australia (Sydney) http://the.wiretapped.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Austria (Vienna) http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/OpenBSD/songs/song32. ogg
Belgium (Ghent) http://openbsd.rug.ac.be/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/son g32.ogg
Canada (Edmonton) http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
Canada (Sherbrooke) http://gulus.usherb.ca/ftp/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
Finland http://ftp.fi.debian.org/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Finland (Jyvskyl) http://ftp.jyu.fi/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Germany (Esslingen) http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs /song32.ogg
Germany (Frankfurt) http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/so ng32.ogg
Germany (Stuttgart) http://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
Italy (Napoli) http://ftp.openbsd.it/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Sweden (Uppsala) http://mirror.pudas.net/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
Taiwan http://openbsd.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song 32.ogg
TamSui, Taiwan http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Batesville, AR) http://gandalf.neark.org/pub/distributions/OpenBSD /songs/song32.ogg
USA (Sunnyvale, CA) http://east.dl.sourceforge.net/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg
USA (Tallahassee, FL) http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Lake in the Hills, IL) http://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Indianapolis, IN) http://archive.progeny.com/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (West Lafayette, IN) http://ftp7.usa.openbsd.org/pub/os/OpenBSD/songs/s ong32.ogg
USA (Cambridge, MA) http://openbsd.mirrors.netnumina.com/songs/song32. ogg
USA (State College, PA) http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song3 2.ogg
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.og g
USA (Fairfax, VA) http://openbsd.secsup.org/songs/song32.ogg
USA (Springfield, VA) http://www.tux.org/pub/bsd/openbsd/songs/song32.og g
USA (Madison, WI) http://mirror6.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/OpenBSD/son gs/song32.ogg

From the openbsd man pages:
pf.conf(5)
pfctl(8)
pf(4)

From the openbsd man pages:
pf.conf(5)
pfctl(8)
pf(4)

From the openbsd man pages:
pf.conf(5)
pfctl(8)
pf(4)

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/progr ams/xdm/config/OpenBSD_15bpp.xpm

Of course, I may be wrong. Even openbsd.org runs Solaris!

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a
3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for
$10 US or EUR 14 in Europe The European size is 70x100 cm

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a
3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for
$10 US or EUR 14 in Europe The European size is 70x100 cm

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a
3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for
$10 US or EUR 14 in Europe The European size is 70x100 cm

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a
3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for
$10 US or EUR 14 in Europe The European size is 70x100 cm

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a
3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for
$10 US or EUR 14 in Europe The European size is 70x100 cm

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg (please use a mirror)

This time it's a Bond-movie theme, which matches the new logo.

-jfedor

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg (please use a mirror)

This time it's a Bond-movie theme, which matches the new logo.

-jfedor

The 3.2 song is available via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/
ftp://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

(other mirrors have not caught up yet)

The lyrics are available from:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#32

The 3.2 song is available via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/
ftp://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

(other mirrors have not caught up yet)

The lyrics are available from:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#32

The 3.2 song is available via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/
ftp://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

(other mirrors have not caught up yet)

The lyrics are available from:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#32

or if they are turning it around in an attempt to regain the glory of, say, 2.7

Yes, I'll bite on one of the infamous tps12 trolls...

Version 2.7 of OpenBSD was not at all one of the top releases in terms of stability. Based on the list of errata for 2.7, you can compare it to other point releases and find that it's actually one of the "less good" versions of a traditionally secure OS.

Trolling and spreading blatantly wrong information isn't really a nice thing to do, especially when your snide remarks make a really, really nice platform look bad.

Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but there is the infamous Linux Compatibility mode for OpenBSD (as well as FreeBSD and NetBSD) that will allow you to run many Linux applications. OpenBSD also supports the Ext2 file system (again, same with FreeBSD and most likely NetBSD).

...is OpenBSD recommended as an internet server over all of the other distros?

Depends who you talk to ;)

A good place to start is here, to find out what the intentions of the OBSD project are. Then check out the OpenBSD Journal to see what people do with it.

My two cents: OBSD really shines as a secure inet server. Things like httpd, sshd, firewalling, bridging, routing. People do use it as a desktop, but IMHO it is not as desktop-friendly as FreeBSD. *shrug* I run it basically headless, as does everyone I know.

Then again, a cutting-edge desktop system is not a primary concern of the OBSD project.

According to the release notes there are "Over 1800 pre-built and tested packages".
Just FYI :-)

Does anyone read squid? And can OpenBSD really protect you if you engage in such unsafe behavior?

These includes things like a nonexec stack, a chrooted apache, a reduction in the number of setuid binaries

Ahemmm! set[ug]id, both. Also, the addition of Provos' systrace(1), which has been coming along for some time is tres cool, man. Listen, read:

Systrace enforces system call policies for applications by constraining the application's access to the system. The policy is generated interactively. Operations not covered by the policy raise an alarm and allow an user to refine the currently configured policy.

CTS. Someone bitched about the installer, and how cooler it'd be, how more ``popular'' OBSD'd be if it came with a purdier installer, cotton candy, and power seats. This flies in the face of how OBSD developers feel about the audience of their OS. `Fuck popular! Popular only brings unwashed numbers and wastes time; they don't handhold anyone.' `Read gaddammit, read!' `If you wont read the fucking excellent manpages, or wont read other included documentation, if you wont search list archives for the same repeated questions (and they will be if you are that stupid) you're a fucking slacker, if you read them and don't understand them, you're a fucking luser.' Sound like an OS that gives a shit about being popular or tolerant of stupid newcomers? I don't think so.

If you're prepared to do the hard work, not expecting handholding and waste anyone's time, you'll be alright. Not for everyone, as it should be.

Although I'm looking forward to the release,
and will upgrade eventually, I'm *REALLY* looking
forward to the next song..

RTFFAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris

8.18 - Why does www.openbsd.org run on Solaris?

www.openbsd.org and the main OpenBSD ftp site are hosted at a SunSITE at the University of Alberta, Canada. These sites are hosted on a large Sun system, which has access to lots of storage space and Internet bandwidth. The presence of the SunSITE gives the OpenBSD group access to this bandwidth. This is why the main site runs here. Many of the OpenBSD mirror sites run OpenBSD, but since they do not have guaranteed access to this large amount of bandwidth, the group has chosen to run the main site at the University of Alberta SunSITE.

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.2 CD 3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.2 CD 3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.2 CD 3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.2 CD 3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe

Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.2 CD 3.2 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45

The new new 3.2 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe

What's your definition of an easy installer? I would rather have something functional over easy/GUI. When I first installed OpenBSD I had only used Debian since then (only for a year or so). I printed out the entire FAQ and read it back and forth whenever I had some free time. If you read it, you will notice that it walks you through the entire installation procedure. If I was able to install OpenBSD using their excellent text installer just by reading the documentation available on their site then I'm sure anyone (who's willing to do research) can. It also helps to have an old box to install on first, play around, install again.. rinse and repeat as required.

this is great if you happen to be in north america. a true karma whore would link to the mirror list.

I'm going as a blowfish. For the spikes, I hacked up some large foam cones from a craft store, carved the pieces into spike-shapes, and used a file on them to get them smooth. I'll spray-paint them yellow, then use skin glue from a costume store to affix them to my yellow-painted face and the yellow bathing cap I'll have over my long hair (yes, I am female).

Proper dress? Oh, probably bluejeans and a blue turtleneck (simulated water)... or maybe this. Cripes, I love Halloween... what other day of the year do you have a chance to dress up as Puffy without a free trip to the mental asylum?

I'm going as a blowfish. For the spikes, I hacked up some large foam cones from a craft store, carved the pieces into spike-shapes, and used a file on them to get them smooth. I'll spray-paint them yellow, then use skin glue from a costume store to affix them to my yellow-painted face and the yellow bathing cap I'll have over my long hair (yes, I am female).

Proper dress? Oh, probably bluejeans and a blue turtleneck (simulated water)... or maybe this. Cripes, I love Halloween... what other day of the year do you have a chance to dress up as Puffy without a free trip to the mental asylum?

No, I meant read it until you understand it. I don't want anyone working for me that doesn't think understanding documentation is a good thing or doing something the correct way rather than "it works so I might be doing it right."

And there's a difference between not being able to code and understanding a particular function. I may read a function's man page 2 or 3 times to make sure I understand correctly what is going on. Not nessesarly because I'm incompetent, but because the wording my be confusing (wow, confusing wording in a manpage? Who would have thought..). That doesn't mean every single function for a particular language requires you to read the documentation for it multiple times. I assume nothing. Assuming something leads to bugs and insecurity. I've been programming in C for many, many, many years. When I do a little PHP programming to create some web interfaces I don't assume that just because both C and PHP have a function called strlen, and the general documentation says it returns the length of a string, that they work identically. So I read the entire strlen documentation for PHP to understand exactly whats happening. It only took less than a minute, but now I'm not assuming. I know. This goes for lots of things. The more complex functions you use, the more important it is to fully understand them.

The point is coding correctly is the most important skill to learn. I have friends that hack together scripts and programs from examples and snipits of other code and a little bit of their own code to glue it together, with little to no understanding of what they are actually doing. Then months later something breaks they can't fix and they act as if it was the author who wrote the example code's problem.

No, it's there fault. Not because they hacked together examples, but because they didn't take to the time to make sure they knew what the examples were doing, that the examples were implemented correctly, and that they understood exactly how the code in the examples worked.

Take a look at OpenBSD's philosphy.. You can learn a lot from it.

I would get a set of mid- to endnineties Macs (pre G3). Why? Networking is dead sinple via appletalk, there is an absolute myriad on scientific software out there for Classic, and the hardware is dead cheap.

Sites like Lowendmac are teeming with examples how to put older Macs into good use in the classroom.

Don't end up getting tangled up in Linux, please.

Dirk

Oh yes, and if you really, really want to use a free *nix, use OpenBSD.

Obsd uses Heimdal, and seemingly the krb4 compatiblity is built into the kadmind daemon. Only MIT-based sites running the kadmind4 daemon are affected, while seemingly all heimdal KDC's running kadmind were. In any case the code flaw in both cases has a similar patch / fix.

'Microsoft has told...that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems.'

I wrote a script to log the start & end times and let it run.

Why bother? Just use time. You won't have to do any math either!

* I prefer SCSI over IDE

* RedHat is a pain to strip down to a bare minimum web server, I prefer OpenBSD. Sleek and elegant like the early days of Linux distros.

* I've used Dell PowerEdge 2650 rackmount servers and they're VERY well made and easy to use. Redundant power supplies, SCSI removable drives, good physical security (lots of locks).

I run this fun little operating system on a produciton machine. 20 days away from one year uptime

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM, DAMMIT!

I'm not aware of exactly what NSA stuff you are speaking of. One thing to keep in mind is that OpenBSD is based out of Canada, not the USA. And to my knowledge there is no laws involving the exportation of crytography. Enabling OpenBSD to utilize this in the fixing of security issues. Comming from the project are other such gems as OpenSSH, which we all love and use, right?

So, unfortunatly with a generic question you get a generic answer of stuff that can be found on a half dozen links on their front page.

And you have to admit it would bring nice little change to the front page, and maybe a few more "WTF is this?!?" posts. Especially if it was the sub logo from here :-)

Yes... I'm a fanatic, now go away you insensitive clod.

>Please suggest a better way for me to map a drive
>letter on my Windows XP machine to my Linux web
>server in a colocation center.

Use scp to copy the files.

Putty is a nice SSH client, and includes a Win32 version of scp called PSCP.EXE.

With modern computers and government spy networks like Echelon, there is no reason that we shouldn't use OpenSSH as our default shell, as it is free as in speech and as in beer, yet provides excellent security.

OpenBSD leads the way once again.

OpenBSD uses softupdates (still in development, need an fsck still). Right here. The linked papers are useful reads.

I think the kind of functionality you may be looking for is obtainable with systrace
Or check out Niels Provos' page

Does Canada have a secure OS?

Actually, they do.

Better than that Lunix crap.

This sentence from the article really drew my attention:

Mainframe operating systems, which have been perfected over decades, have very few security flaws. Security problems on mainframes tend to be caused by administrators' errors.

Obviously, this guy does not know what he is talking about.

My father used to be a mainframe security officer at a Fortune 500 company. He knew mainframes inside and out and was always pretty much on top of things -- and he started his career on old IBM with punch cards, if you see what I mean.

Anyway, his company would hire (once every three years) an external consultant to test the security of the systems my father took care of. This consultant could gain the mainframe equivalent of "root" access in 30 minutes or less.

A mainframe operating system is not secure -- it's very stable (uptime=99.9999%), though, but that's a different thing.

My advice? If you want security, get OpenBSD. If you want the latest gizmo, get Linux (a real Linux) and invest some time in securing your installation...

OpenBSD 3.2 will be released on November 1, and pre-orders have started! Check openbsd.org

What's with that default-looking apache install here?

I hope that ssl is patched, right? Oh. I forgot, Theo doesn't make mistakes.....

On a more serious side, you BSD guys are pissing me off, so I decided to take a step forward and help the cause. I ordered my 3.2 CD.

I've had enough penguins to last a lifetime. Now it's time for some heavily-armed sushi. Wish me luck.